Pellaea Stål, 1872

Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Grazia, Jocelia, Forero, Dimitri, Fernández, Fernando & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2022, Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species, Zootaxa 5097 (1), pp. 1-88 : 66

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:22D34955-4764-495D-8CD0-13ED18712C93
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6953586
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scientific name	Pellaea Stål, 1872
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The genus can be recognized by having the oval body, slightly convex; the pronotum with punctations in transversal, vermiform lines, and separated by smooth and callosity regions; the first antennal segment not reaching the apex of the head; the clypeus is nearly equal or slightly longer than the mandibular plates; and the abdominal medial tubercle not reaching the procoxae, sometimes reduced ( Brailovsky 1987; Rolston & McDonald 1980).

References

Brailovsky, H. (1987) Hemiptera-Heteroptera de Mexico XXXVIII. Los Pentatomini de la Estacion de Biologia Tropical Los Tuxtlas , Veracruz (Pentatomidae). Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Series de Zoologia, 58 (1), 69 - 154.